Dot's Home

DOT'S HOME is a single-player, 2D, narrative-driven video game that follows a young Black woman in Detroit living in her grandmother's beloved home, as she travels through time to relive key moments in her family's history where race, place, and home collide in difficult choices. As an interactive experience, DOT'S HOME allows players to see the harmful systems that dictate our relationship to race and place, through the eyes of those that are most impacted. By inserting the player into scenarios where they have to make choices about how and where to live in the midst of redlining, urban renewal, and gentrification, we ask a fundamental question: "How did your family end up where they are today, and how much choice did they really have in that journey?"